Biomedical Organizations

Biomedical Organizations: A Worldwide Guide to Position Documents puts the results of a survey of hundreds of global medical organizations and their position statements at your fingertips. This comprehensive reference analyzes and discusses the history and characteristics of the creation and development of the organizational position statement. It also indexes medical organizations and their Web site addresses, and presents an alphabetical listing of their position statements. Indexed according to subject as well as by organization, this one-of-a-kind source allows readers to determine what organizations have issued position documents on a specific subject such as alcoholism or HIV, as well as providing an appendix listing biomedical organizations without position documents.

Dale Stirling

Foreword Mark Thoman Preface. Identifying Position Documents. Method of Listing Position Documents. Indexing. Acknowledgments. An Overview of Position Documents. Position Documents Defined. The Historical Imperative. Position Document Efficacy. Biomedical Organization Position Documents. Appendix A. Biomedical Organizations Without Position Documents. Appendix B. Bibliography of Position Document Literature. References. Index.